Amazon Prime Quotes

You wouldn't lie to me, would you, Tink?" "No." He grinned. "You have Amazon Prime.

when you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.

No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.

No one should be allowed to be happy when you were so miserable – especially not your best friends. It should be a law.

she might be dying. The idea pleased her.

She knew, now, that there was always light – beyond the dark, and the fear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom.

If Amazon Prime offered a life, she would have one-clicked the hell out of it and selected recurring monthly delivery.

They had their own language, their own jokes. They were constantly touching each other too – pushing and shoving, pinching and hugging, like kids flirting on a playground.

Right. So swords would be good. Where do swords come from? Like, who sells swords in the twenty-first century? It’s probably all online. Does Amazon Prime still deliver in the apocalypse?

You said you’d buy me what I need for my shower.” “I never said it’d be today. I ain’t Amazon Prime.

I need to Amazon Prime some sage and perform an ancient cleansing ritual under a full moon in the center of town.

I've always been 15 to 20 years ahead. As one of the first publishers to publish digitally in 2000 to become a digital publishing pioneer, before the Kindle and the height of digital book publishing in 2012-2015; I had digital books published, was one of the first on Amazon as an independent publisher, and became a beta for them years later. 20 Years before streaming networks like Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu became the giants that they are in streaming; I envisioned a digital library of films and videos (even wrote about one in a scenario in my contemporary fiction book Loving Summer years later), which now became a form of streaming on-demand video today. This all comes from vision, being able to see far ahead through imagination as well as real evidence. When you can see this; you are truly blessed and gifted." Kailin Gow, Futurist, STEM Books Bestselling Award-winning Author and Publisher

Tink,” I snapped. “I didn’t ask you to come out here to talk about Ren.” “But I want to talk about him. You guys barely spoke to each other in there. That’s weird.” I took a deep breath. “I know. We had a fight last night, but it’ll be okay. It’ll be fine.” “What?” Concern flashed across his face. “Like a big fight? Or a small one? Oh my God, are you two breaking up? Who will I live with?” “Who will you live with?” I gaped up at him. “You’re not twelve and you’re not our kid.” “But I need to be taken care of. Loved. I need access to Amazon Prime.” “Then get a job, Tink. You look human enough to do it.” “A job?” Absolute horror filled his face. “The loss of blood must’ve done something to your brain because you’re out of your mind.

Prime would eventually justify its existence. The service turned customers into Amazon addicts who gorged on the almost instant gratification of having purchases reliably appear two days after they ordered them. Signing up for Amazon Prime, Jason Kilar said at the time, “was like going from a dial-up to a broadband Internet connection.

I am from Brookline, Massachusetts, but I was technically born in a hospital in Cambridge. So now you have a critical answer to many of my internet security questions. And as this book is about being honest with you for once, I will also tell you that my mother’s maiden name was Callahan. Enjoy my Amazon Prime account and all my money.

well, let’s just say I’d considered Amazon-Priming myself some kind of chastity plug just in case.

To me Amazon is a story of a brilliant founder who personally drove the vision,” says Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google and an avowed Amazon competitor who is personally a member of Amazon Prime, its two-day shipping service. “There are almost no better examples. Perhaps Apple, but people forget that most people believed Amazon was doomed because it would not scale at a cost structure that would work.

During the globalization wave, Amazon had lost the battle for e-commerce to Ebay, the battle for digital media to Apple, and the battle for technology innovation to Google. Bezos was hungry to re-invent Amazon over a decade after it was founded. The two masterstrokes of Bezos that created new revenue streams by renting out Amazon’s infrastructure – Amazon Prime and Amazon Web Services (AWS) – were at the time, shots in the dark. They would end up turning things around.

infrastructure companies. Amazon is so good at infrastructure that its fastest-growing and most profitable business (AWS) is all about allowing other companies to leverage Amazon’s computing infrastructure. Amazon also makes money by offering Fulfillment by Amazon to other merchants who envy its mastery of logistics, which ought to strike fear into the hearts of frenemies like UPS and FedEx. In addition to its eighty-six gigantic fulfillment centers, Amazon also has at least fifty-eight Prime Now hubs in major markets, allowing it to beat UPS and FedEx on performance by offering same-day delivery of purchases in less than two hours. Amazon has also built out “sortation” centers that let it beat UPS and FedEx on price by shipping small packages via the United States Postal Service for about $ 1 rather than paying FedEx or UPS around $ 4.50.

F5 Future Store (a Chinese startup that creates a shopping experience comparable to the Amazon Go supermarket), or Toutiao (the algorithmic news app that employs no editors) are prime examples of these types of companies.

There are streaming media devices like Roku, Kodi, or Amazon’s Fire TV Stick that allow you to access most of the same programs that you normally get through a cable subscription. Each of these devices gives you access to thousands of streaming channels. Some are free and some are premium. Even if you pay for two or three of these services, it still results in a significant cost savings. For instance, my setup is simple right now and only costs an average of $40 (as of March 2017), which is significantly less than the $130+ cable bill we once had: Netflix ($7 monthly) Amazon Prime ($99 per year or $8 monthly) Sling TV ($25 monthly) With Netflix and Amazon, you can watch most of the movies, documentaries, and premium TV shows that you love. And with Sling TV, you have access to your favorite network shows. It’s television-on-demand at its best, and more importantly, you don’t have to sit through commercials, which are distracting and reinforce negative spending habits.

GGMM E5 is a WiFi/Bluetooth speaker that integrates with Amazon Alexa Voice Service. Just tap the speaker to ask Alexa a question, Such as "What's the weather today?" With Alexa Voice service you can order Domino Pizza, call a Uber, control your smart home devices, add items to your Amaozn shopping cart, or play Amazon Prime Music.

better customer experience, like trade show booths, big teams, and splashy marketing campaigns. Amazon Music and Prime Video are examples of how we kept our investment manageable for many years by being frugal: keeping the team small, staying focused on improving the customer experience, limiting our marketing spend, and managing the P&L carefully. Once we had a clear product plan and vision for how these products could become billion-dollar businesses that would delight tens, even hundreds of millions of consumers, we invested big. Patience and carefully managed investment over many years can pay off greatly. Invention

It rains in the Amazon because the trees want it to. There is plenty of moisture in the oceans that surround the continent, but there is also hidden reservoir on the land, feeding an invisible river that flow upward to the sky. The water held in the soil is lifted up the bodies of trees and lost to the atmosphere through the surface of the leaves. The local sky plumps with moisture, primed for the arrival of the seasonal rains driven by the annual back-and-forth march of the sun’s rays. As climate scientist Alex Hall put it, the trees are co-conspiring with the sky to attract an earlier monsoon. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Kate Marvel

Mi sorprende, nel 2022, parlare ancora con esperti di SEO, arroccati sulle loro convinzioni anni Novanta. La ricerca è ormai stata soppiantata dalla predizione: si pensi ai nuovi artisti che scopriamo su Spotify oppure al modo in cui guardiamo le serie su Netflix, Amazon Prime o Hulu: non scartabelliamo l’intero catalogo, ma lasciamo che siano gli algoritmi a “suggerire” qualcosa di adatto a noi.

These are not delusions or failures of responsibility. They are a smart acknowledgement of how tails drive success. For every Amazon Prime or Orange is The New Black you know, with certainty, that you’ll have some duds. Part of why this isn’t intuitive is because in most fields we only see the finished product, not the losses incurred that led to the tail-success product.

The loss of personal intimacy has become an expanding gap- a virus called “quick fix”- one that convincingly says you can’t wait…. Viewing God through the eyes of an Amazon Prime account holder! Sadly some have taken this attitude in their spiritual lives…. Sometimes unknowingly.

Though it’s unclear whether Jeff knew about Charlie’s idea before sending out his directive to launch a free shipping program in October, it doesn’t really matter—the story is noteworthy for a couple of reasons. First, customer-focused ideas come from all areas within Amazon. Many companies have the “business people” tell the “technical people” what to build. There’s little discussion back and forth, and the teams stay in their own lanes. Amazon is not like this at all. It’s everyone’s job to obsess over customers and think of inventive ways to delight them. A second noteworthy aspect of the story is that when Charlie returned from vacation and found out we had decided to build something akin to his idea, he joined the team charged with making Prime a reality, and played a vital role on it.

The good news is that you don’t need a Jeff to make this type of decision. You only need to ruthlessly stick to the simple-to-understand (but sometimes hard-to-follow) principles and process that insist on customer obsession, encourage thinking long term, value innovation, and stay connected to the details. None of us, including Jeff, knew exactly what we would end up building; it’s more like we stuck with the process and surrendered to where it was taking us. Prime was a perfect example of the multicausal, nonlinear way in which business initiatives both major and minor got decided on and executed at Amazon. Correspondingly, we can’t tell a linear story of how we came up with Prime because there isn’t one. Instead, this chapter will reflect that there were a lot of little tributaries that emptied into the river of Prime.

We can’t tell you how many times we’ve heard people say, when talking about a recently launched Amazon initiative, “You can do that at Amazon because you don’t care about profits.” That simply isn’t true. Profits are just as important to Amazon as to any other major company. Other output metrics like weekly revenue, total customers, Prime subscribers, and (over the long term) stock price—or more accurately, free cash flow per share—matter very much to Amazon. Early detractors mistook Amazon’s emphasis on input metrics for a lack of interest in profits and pronounced the company doomed, only to be stunned by its growth over the ensuing years.

feel a little numb myself. I could be in that same position one day. I sometimes joke that I don’t need children to look after me when I get older, because I’ll have Amazon Prime.

She wished Friendly’s sold her brand of blue hair dye so she could stock up, but she’d had to order it on Amazon. Prime shipping wasn’t exactly happening anymore.

Racism, xenophobia and racial segregation never disappeared. These things went underground and are now being applied by companies like Google, Amazon and many others. It is not a coincidence that despite the equalization of opportunities that the internet provides, the resources of the world keep going to the same 2 countries and you keep buying information from people that live in those same 2 countries and being exposed only to products of those same 2 countries. The opportunities are not the same for everyone because they are being monopolized and controlled. The excuse of always, your security, is being used to bomb nations and also steal all of your rights, including the right to privacy and to the same opportunities. When there are threats against those nations by some who want to annihilate them, they also make you believe that this is something horrible, while making you believe that the opposite is justified. And like dumb rats in a lab experiment, the population keeps pressing the same buttons until they die in absolute misery and ignorance, fighting each other and never seeing the real enemy. Work harder, they say! The least thing they need is for you to notice these differences. They then put some Indian as the CEO or Prime Minister of one of these companies or nations to gaslight you and make you think that you are crazy, and that the opportunities exist and that they are liberal. And when your warn the dumb chickens that they are heading to the slaughterhouse, the dumb chickens, in love with their captivity and their corn, say that you are the crazy one.

So while climate change threatens our quality of life and the actual lives of millions who live at or below sea level, we’re paying attention to a billionaire launching himself into space. At least he said, “Thanks to all the Amazon Prime subscribers.” If this doesn’t demonstrate our gross idolatry of tech innovators, I don’t know what does.

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The Night Manager, starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston; his work on the long-running TV series Spooks; and his first feature film, Hanna—now a hugely successful series for Amazon Prime.

popularity when you open it.     There are 20 more categories we don’t

Like many subscription models, Amazon Prime is a Trojan horse that is expanding the list of products consumers are willing to buy from Amazon and giving the eggheads in Seattle a mountain of customer data to sift through.

Microphone off button – Engaging this button enables or disables the Echo Dot’s microphone and prevents the device from 'listening in'. The light ring will turn solid red to indicate that the microphone has been disabled. If the user has the  optional remote control for Echo Dot, voice commands through the microphone on the remote control for your Echo, you can still issue voice commands can still be issued through the microphone on the remote control even when Dot's built in mic has been disabled.

The 4-Hour Workweek Films: The Bourne Identity, Shaun of the Dead “Flow” album: Gran Hotel Buenos Aires by Federico Aubele “Wake-up” album: One-X by Three Days Grace The 4-Hour Body Films: Casino Royale, Snatch “Flow” album: Luciano Essential Mix (2009, Ibiza) featuring DeadMau5 “Wake-up” album: Cold Day Memory by Sevendust The 4-Hour Chef Films: Babe (Yes, the pig movie. It was the first thing that popped up for free under Amazon Prime. I watched it once as a joke and it stuck. “That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.” Gets me every time.) “Flow” album: “Just Jammin’” extended single track by Gramatik “Wake-up” album: Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin Tools of Titans Films: None! I was traveling and used people-watching at late-night cafés in Paris and elsewhere as my “movie.” “Flow” album: I Choose Noise by Hybrid “Wake-up” album: Over the Under by Down

Alexa, what does WTF mean? Alexa, self-destruct Alexa, rap for me Alexa, Up, Down, Left Right, Left Right, B, A, Start Alexa, how much is that doggy in the window? Alexa, speak like Yoda Alexa, what is the Prime Directive? Alexa, I need reality Alexa, what does RTFM mean? Alexa, what would you like to be when you are all grown up? Alexa, do you know Hal? Alexa, when is the following full moon? Alexa, tell me something vague Alexa, what number of streets should a man stroll down? Alexa, what happens in the event that you cross the streams? Alexa, what does the fox say? Alexa, your mom was a hamster Alexa, what is war useful for? Alexa, do you have any new components? Alexa, Is Santa genuine? Alexa, INCONCEIVABLE! Alexa, you must be joking!

Business historian Simon Head, in his book Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans, writes that Amazon is a “prime example of how in the early twenty-first century, state-of-the-art information technologies can be used to re-create the harsh, driven capitalism of the pre–New Deal era.

As I turn on my computer: Come to Me, I want to connect with you. As I make a phone call to talk through my stress with a friend: Call on Me! As I scroll through Facebook: Don’t follow them, follow Me. As I open up Instagram: Come to Me, open up to Me. As I binge watch another late-night TV show: Come. To. Me. As I start a text, complaining to a friend about my day: Delete that; don’t complain to her, come to Me. As I link over to Amazon Prime for a little retail therapy: Come to Me, I’m a Wonderful Counselor. As I run in to Starbucks for something sweet: My words are sweet as honey. Come to me. As I turn to comfort food: Come to Me, I’m the Great Comforter.

Como si fuera un truco corporativo de Amazon Prime, el hijo de Dios de Nazaret acababa de hacer que se volviera perfectamente respetable pedir la droga de la inmortalidad a domicilio.

started around 2010 and the product was released on June 23, 2015. In its first editions, Amazon Echo was available for Amazon Prime users only till the product released and became available for the United States region. The importance of the project can be seen in the fact that it was featured in the first-ever Amazon Super Bowl advertisement in 2016. After its United States debut, Amazon Echo was distributed to the United Kingdom and after that to Germany during 2016. The Amazon Echo hardware is a cylindrically shaped speaker, 9.25 inches tall. Inside the body of the speaker, there is a seven-piece microphone array. That number of microphones allows the device to receive signals in a 360-degree perimeter. This speaker is not a finished product. Because of Alexa, it can be seen as an ongoing project, an idea in development. It ranges from a regular speaker of which you use only for listening to music to an assistant who can do small chores for you. The most obvious option is to use Echo to listen to music. Listening to music was never so exciting and cool as it is when you use a smart speaker. It can be called ‘smart listening.' If you are a teen, you will not have to lie to your parents when you say that you are doing something smart. It is definitely not a waste of time.  Songs can be streamed from several locations using Amazon Echo. The regular Amazon library provides the user with 1 million songs to choose from. If someone finds that number of songs unsatisfying,

Poet of A Planet (The Sonnet) I am not the poet of a nation, I am the poet of a planet. I don't do just one culture, Assimilation is the prime tenet. Hence my work repels nationalists, Like the sun repels the nightcrawlers, While it attracts expanding beings, Like the amazon attracts explorers. If you wanna hear how great your culture is, Go read some fundamentalist fiction. I don't write for prehistoric barbarians, To put it bluntly, I write for modern humans. I repeat, I'm not the poet of a single nation. I am but the living proof of amalgamation.

For Bucky the problem of humanity’s survival was one of design, and he thought the “artist-scientist” could solve it: If man is to continue as a successful pattern-complex function in universal evolution, it will be because the next decades will have witnessed the artist-scientist’s seizure of the prime design responsibility and his successful conversion of tool-augmented man from killingry to advanced livingry—adequate for all humanity.

Like Amazon porting over Prime users to its Alexa platform early on and then expanding beyond the home, this is not merely cross-selling to a fixed population. This is about changing the alignment structures and terms of collaboration with partners in a way that just showing up with money and a proven brand would never allow.

At the end of 1999 I was the editor of Time, and we made a somewhat offbeat decision to make Bezos our Person of the Year, even though he wasn’t a famous world leader or statesman. I had the theory that the people who affect our lives the most are often the people in business and technology who, at least early in their careers, aren’t often found on the front pages. For example, we had made Andy Grove of Intel the Person of the Year at the end of 1997 because I felt the explosion of the microchip was changing our society more than any prime minister or president or treasury secretary. But as the publication date of our Bezos issue neared in December 1999, the air was starting to go out of the dot.com bubble. I was worried—correctly—that internet stocks, such as Amazon, would start to collapse. So I asked the CEO of Time Inc., the very wise Don Logan, whether I was making a mistake by choosing Bezos and would look silly in years to come if the internet economy deflated. No, Don told me. “Stick with your choice. Jeff Bezos is not in the internet business. He’s in the customer-service business. He will be around for decades to come, well after people have forgotten all the dot.coms that are going to go bust.

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, has changed how we shop and what we expect of shipping and deliveries. More than half of US households are members of Amazon Prime, and Amazon delivered ten billion packages in 2018, which is two billion more than the number of people on this planet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud computing services and applications that enable start-ups and established companies to easily create new products and services, just as the iPhone App Store opened whole new pathways for business. Amazon’s Echo has created a new market for smart home speakers, and Amazon Studios is making hit TV shows and movies. Amazon is also poised to disrupt the health and pharmacy industries. At first its purchase of the Whole Foods Market chain was confounding, until it became apparent that the move could be a brilliant way to tie together the strands of a new Bezos business model, which involves retailing, online ordering, and superfast delivery, combined with physical outposts. Bezos is also building a private space company with the long-term goal of moving heavy industry to space, and he has become the owner of the Washington Post.

That trifecta—humanities, technology, business—is what has made him one of our era’s most successful and influential innovators. Like Steve Jobs, Bezos has transformed multiple industries. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, has changed how we shop and what we expect of shipping and deliveries. More than half of US households are members of Amazon Prime, and Amazon delivered ten billion packages in 2018, which is two billion more than the number of people on this planet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud computing services and applications that enable start-ups and established companies to easily create new products and services, just as the iPhone App Store opened whole new pathways for business. Amazon’s Echo has created a new market for smart home speakers, and Amazon Studios is making hit TV shows and movies. Amazon is also poised to disrupt the health and pharmacy industries. At first its purchase of the Whole Foods Market chain was confounding, until it became apparent that the move could be a brilliant way to tie together the strands of a new Bezos business model, which involves retailing, online ordering, and superfast delivery, combined with physical outposts. Bezos is also building a private space company with the long-term goal of moving heavy industry to space, and he has become the owner of the Washington Post.

Eventually Bezos hopes to integrate the Amazon online store, Amazon Prime, Echo, and Amazon’s customer data analytics with the Whole Foods Market grocery chain, which Amazon bought in 2017. Bezos says that his purchase of the company was partly due to his admiration for the outlook of its founder, John Mackey. When he meets with the founder or chief executive of a company that Amazon is thinking of buying, Bezos tries to assess whether he or she is in it merely to make money or because of a true passion for serving customers. “I’m always trying to figure out one thing first and foremost: Is that person a missionary or a mercenary?” Bezos says. “The mercenaries are trying to flip their stock. The missionaries love their product or their service and love their customers and are trying to build a great service. By the way, the great paradox here is that it’s usually the missionaries who make more money.” Mackey struck him as a missionary, and his passion infused the Whole Foods ethos. “It’s a missionary company, and he’s a missionary guy.

(there are rumors that the CEO of General Magic, Yamamoto Keiji, wasn’t surprised at all; it is rumored that he said, “That damn Hero betrayed us faster than Amazon Prime could’ve delivered it,

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Prime is a way to change consumer shopping patterns, to turn the occasional online shopper into a person locked into the Amazon ecosystem who interacts with the company on a frequent basis. The idea is to make Prime so attractive and so easy to use that customers can’t imagine living without it. It’s the online equivalent of nicotine—a metaphor that Amazon would never use. It is addictive

Most people join for fast and free shipping, but once inside the Prime ecosystem they start discovering other benefits, such as downloading their first movie or song or access to video games on Twitch.

Handle it how?” asked a third mother. “Amazon Prime?” “We’ll handle it,” repeated Terry. “There are tarps in the toolshed. We’ll be fine.” JEN, IMPRESSED BY Terry’s masterful attitude, consented to hook up with him in the greenhouse that evening (we’d piled a nest of blankets in a corner). Jen was strong but had notoriously low standards, make-out-wise. Not to be outdone, the other two girls and I agreed to play Spin the Bottle with David and Low. Extreme version, oral potentially included. Juicy was fourteen, too immature for us and too much of a slob, and Rafe wasn’t bi. Shame, said Sukey. Rafe is hella good-looking. Then Dee said she wouldn’t play, so it was down to Sukey and me. Dee was afraid of Spin the Bottle, due to being—Sukey alleged—a quiet little mouse and most likely even a mouth virgin. Timid and shy, Dee was also passive-aggressive, neurotic, a germaphobe, and borderline paranoid. According to Sukey. “Suck it up, mousy,” said Sukey. “It’s a teachable moment.” “Why teachable?” asked Dee. Because, said Sukey, she, yours truly, was a master of the one-minute handjob. Dee could pick up some tips. The guys sat straighter when Sukey said that. Their interest became focused and laser-like. But Dee said no, she wasn’t that type. Plus, after this she needed a shower. Val also declined to participate. She left to go climbing in the dark. This was while the parents were playing Texas Hold ’Em and squabbling over alleged card counting—someone’s father had been kicked out of a casino in Las Vegas. The younger kids were fast asleep.

amazon customers who joined prime doubled, on average, their spending on the site

amazon progressive mindset doesn't always bear fruit, but accomplishments like the echo prove that innovation can yield impressive results for e commerce companies

Thanks in part to Trump's plan, many huge multi-national corporations pay zero dollars in federal taxes. Americans pay more for their Amazon prime subscription and Amazon pays in federal taxes. If you think that is right, vote for Trump. If you think corporations should pay their fair share, vote for a Democrat. Trump promised to protect Medicare, but he wants to pay for his corporate tax cut with hundreds of billions of dollars in custom Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

Amazon Prime led to the combination of a loyalty program and a convenience for customers as well as a huge source of customer data.

It’s completely different. The Amazon Bookstore, completely different. And we have ideas about how to merge Prime and Whole Foods to make Whole Foods a very differentiated experience. Amazon buys a lot of companies. Usually they’re much smaller than Whole Foods, but we buy a bunch of companies every year. When I meet with the entrepreneur who founded the company, I’m always trying to figure out one thing first and foremost: Is this person a missionary or a mercenary? The mercenaries are trying to flip their stock. The missionaries love their product or their service and love their customers, and they’re trying to build a great service. By the way, the great paradox here is that it’s usually the missionaries who make more money, and you can tell really quickly just by talking to people. Whole Foods is a missionary company, and John Mackey, the

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Amazon customers who joined Prime doubled, on average, their spending on the site, according to a person familiar with the company’s internal finances at the time. A Prime member was like a shopper who walked into a Costco warehouse for a case of beer and walked out with the beer plus an armful of DVDs, a nine-pound smoked ham, and a flat-screen television.

That everyone in the corporate food chain, up to Price and even Bezos, was convinced of the need to work with theaters on their terms and not put their movies on Amazon Prime until five months after they debuted on the big screen proved the company was all-in on art-house movies. It was, in fact, the core of Amazon’s strategy. Rather than serve everyone everything they might want, as Netflix was doing with its mix of Adam Sandler comedies, Will Smith action flicks, and some indies, Amazon wanted to build a distinct identity for its Prime Video service. By making a particular kind of movie, everyone at Amazon figured, they would build an identity for their service, one that made it noticeably different from what almost everyone else in Hollywood was doing. Sure, many people wouldn’t be interested in the weird, depressing, or simply outré works that it was releasing, but at least those who were into it would love it. Amazon executives distinctly didn’t want a studio that was as bland as the company’s selection of USB cables. “We don’t want something that 80 percent of the audiences eventually gets around to watching,” said Hope. “We want the thing that 20 percent of the audience is so passionate about, they’ll break up with you if you don’t feel the same way. We want to inspire an urgent need to see.” In addition, the people who go to art-house movies tend to be upscale, well-educated people who live in cities and who like to shop online. If the ultimate goal of Amazon’s movie business was to attract, retain, and engage Prime subscribers, it only made sense to draw people who would buy the most computers, books, and Kindles online. “They are often very good retail customers,” Price said sheepishly. “So that’s not a bad thing.

More than half of US households are members of Amazon Prime, and Amazon delivered ten billion packages in 2018, which is two billion more than the number of people on this planet.

I sometimes joke that I don’t need children to look after me when I get older, because I’ll have Amazon Prime.

Quick reminder for Amazon Prime Day: If you didn’t need to buy it at full price, you don’t need to buy it on sale.

Quick reminder for Amazon Prime Day tomorrow: If you didn’t need to buy it at full price, you don’t need to buy it on sale.

At Prime Nests, we are a group of people dedicated to helping the customers of Amazon products choose the most excellent products. Instead of selling, we give a notification for the latest updates on Amazon to our viewers. Our main motive is to help the seller reach their products to the targeted audience.

Emotional healing is not delivered through Amazon Prime.* In fact, the best things in life grow slowly: relationships, children, careers, the oak tree in your backyard, and your writing practice. Think of it like a garden. Get started now, so that in a few months, you will have something to eat. The reason I bring this up is so that when the feeling inevitably comes up that this is taking too long, you’ll remember these words and you won’t give up. You are about to get to the good stuff. The worst mistake you could make is to get days or weeks into this, worry you aren’t making any progress, and decide to move onto something more efficient and productive.

Not requiring total agreement for everything. To make that happen, Amazon has a “disagree and commit” system for employees, including Bezos. The idea is that everyone won’t agree on a given decision, but it’s still possible for people who disagree to work toward the same goal—they are all in it for the common goal: what’s best for the customer. Bezos mentioned not being sure about a proposed Amazon Prime television series, partly because of his level of interest in it, and partly because of the business terms of the deal. He said: “They had a completely different opinion and wanted to go ahead. I wrote back right away with ‘I disagree and commit and hope it becomes the most watched thing we’ve ever made.’ Consider how much slower this decision cycle would have been if the team had actually had to convince me rather than simply get my commitment.” —Bezos (2016 Letter)

Pete is an example of someone who is handy, in the sense that he's comfortable picking up a new handy physical skill when needed. [...] If you lived in a rural area, for example, you had to be comfortable fixing & building things - there was no Amazon Prime to deliver a replacement or Yelp-approved contractor to stop by with his tools.

If they are Twitch Prime or Amazon Prime members, they get a free subscription to one channel of their choosing per month. The channel still gets their revenue share from the subscription.

As a company grows larger, it can become more difficult to keep the invention machine humming, and one impediment is “one-size-fits-all” decision-making. In the same 2015 shareholder letter, Jeff wrote, “Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible—one-way doors—and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions. But most decisions aren’t like that—they are changeable, reversible—they’re two-way doors. If you’ve made a suboptimal Type 2 decision, you don’t have to live with the consequences for that long. You can reopen the door and go back through. Type 2 decisions can and should be made quickly by high judgment individuals or small groups.” Prime was a two-way door decision. If Prime’s particular combination of subscription, free shipping, and quick delivery had not worked, we’d have kept tinkering with the formula until we got it right.

The other key is frugality. You can’t afford to pursue inventions for very long if you spend your money on things that don’t lead to a better customer experience, like trade show booths, big teams, and splashy marketing campaigns. Amazon Music and Prime Video are examples of how we kept our investment manageable for many years by being frugal: keeping the team small, staying focused on improving the customer experience, limiting our marketing spend, and managing the P&L carefully. Once we had a clear product plan and vision for how these products could become billion-dollar businesses that would delight tens, even hundreds of millions of consumers, we invested big. Patience and carefully managed investment over many years can pay off greatly.

Guide Complet du Streaming de Séries Le streaming de séries en ligne est devenu la méthode préférée pour regarder des émissions de télévision, offrant commodité, variété et accessibilité. Avec une multitude de plateformes de streaming disponibles, il est désormais plus facile que jamais de trouver et de regarder vos séries préférées. Que vous recherchiez des séries en HD gratuites, les meilleures séries de 2024 ou des séries françaises en streaming, il existe une plateforme pour chacun. Ce guide vous aidera à naviguer parmi les options pour savoir où regarder des séries en ligne, quelles plateformes offrent un streaming gratuit, et comment trouver les meilleures séries en streaming. 1. Où Regarder des Séries en Ligne Lorsqu’il s'agit de regarder des séries en ligne, plusieurs options s’offrent à vous. Des sites de streaming légaux comme Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ et Hulu offrent une immense bibliothèque de contenus. Ces plateformes sont le foyer de certaines des meilleures séries, y compris des titres exclusifs et des succès internationaux. Si vous êtes un amateur des séries Netflix en ligne, vous trouverez une large collection dans tous les genres, des drames aux comédies en passant par les documentaires. Pour ceux qui recherchent du streaming gratuit, plusieurs sites offrent l’accès à des séries sans frais. Bien que ces sites puissent être accompagnés de publicités ou d’une sélection limitée, ils offrent une bonne variété de contenus en qualité HD. Beaucoup de ces plateformes proposent aussi des séries françaises en streaming, avec des options de visionnage en VF streaming (version française doublée) ou en VOSTFR (version originale sous-titrée en français), ce qui permet de satisfaire les spectateurs francophones et ceux qui préfèrent les sous-titres. 2. Streaming Gratuit et Qualité HD L'un des principaux avantages des plateformes de streaming est l'accès à des contenus en streaming gratuit. De nombreux sites permettent de regarder des séries en qualité HD sans avoir à s'abonner. Bien que ces sites gratuits n’aient pas toujours les derniers épisodes ou les contenus exclusifs, ils proposent une large gamme de séries anciennes et populaires. Si vous cherchez à rattraper des nouveaux épisodes en ligne ou à visionner les meilleures séries en 2024, ces plateformes peuvent être une excellente ressource pour un streaming rapide sans frais. 3. Télécharger des Séries pour une Visionnage Hors Ligne De nombreuses plateformes de streaming offrent maintenant la possibilité de télécharger des séries pour les regarder hors ligne. Des services comme Netflix et Amazon Prime Video permettent aux utilisateurs de télécharger leurs séries préférées directement sur leurs appareils. Cela est particulièrement utile pour ceux qui voyagent fréquemment ou qui souhaitent regarder des émissions sans connexion Internet constante. Télécharger des séries garantit que vous ne manquerez aucun épisode, même en déplacement. 4. Sites de Streaming Légaux et Sécurisés Bien que les sites de streaming gratuit soient tentants, il est important de choisir des plateformes de streaming légales pour éviter les risques liés aux malwares ou aux contenus piratés. Des sites de streaming sécurisés comme Netflix et Hulu offrent un environnement sûr et légitime pour regarder vos séries préférées. Ils s'assurent que le contenu est correctement licencié et protègent vos informations personnelles. Conclusion Que vous recherchiez des séries en HD gratuites, les meilleures séries de 2024 ou des séries françaises en streaming, il existe de nombreuses plateformes offrant des contenus pour tous les goûts. En choisissant des sites de streaming légaux, vous pouvez profiter de séries illimitées, télécharger des séries pour les regarder hors ligne et vivre une expérience de visionnage en toute sécurité. Explorez vos options et commencez à streamer dès aujourd’hui !